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  • Colorado suspect was brilliant science student

    DAN ELLIOTT, MICHAEL R. BLOOD,Associated Press

    DENVER — James Eagen Holmes came from a well-tended San Diego enclave of two-story homes with red-tiled roofs, where neighbors recall him as a clean-cut, studious young man of sparing words. Tall and dark-haired, he stared clear-eyed at the camera in a 2004 high school yearbook snapshot, wearing a white junior varsity soccer uniform — No. 16. The son of a nurse, Arlene, and a software company manager, Robert, James Holmes was a brilliant science scholar in college. AP Photo/Ed Andrieski John Priest, left, and Vory Boots wat...

  • Big night for tea party: O'Donnell wins Delaware

    MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer

    Big night for tea party: O'Donnell wins Delaware MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer It's tea time in America. Conservative Christine O'Donnell pulled off a stunning upset over nine-term Rep. Mike Castle in the Republican Senate primary in Delaware Tuesday, propelled by tea party activists into a November showdown with Democrat Chris Coons. After a primary season shaped by economic pain and exasperated voters, the grass-roots, anti-establishment movement can claim wins in at least seven GOP Senate races, a handful of...